Irish softball players take home hardware

The Maple Lake High School softball team held its annual award ceremony last week where they celebrated a near perfect season that ended in a state title, plus individual accomplishments. Pictured above, front row, from left, Mollie Scheiber was named to the academic all-conference and all-state academic teams, earned All-Central Minnesota Conference First Team honors and the Golden Glove award; Megan Carlson was named to the academic all-conference team, earned All-CMC Second Team and Most Improved honors; Linsey Rachel was named to the academic all-conference and all-state academic teams, earned All-CMC First Team honors and the Slugger award, was all-section and first team all-state. Back row, from left, Calli Maki was named to the academic all-conference and all-state academic teams, was All-CMC First Team, all-section and first team all-state; Amber Klug earned All-CMC First Team and Hardest Worker honors, was all-section and first team all-state; Lucy Greenhagen was named to the academic all-conference team; Megan Lind was named to the academic all-conference team and Peyton Tongen earned All-CMC Second Team honors. Not pictured is Katie Goelz who was named to the academic all-conference team, earned All-CMC Second Team honors and was all-section; Olivia Paumen who was named to the academic all-conference team and earned All-CMC Second Team honors; Bryn Elsenpeter who was All-CMC Honorable Mention; Dani Geyen who was All-CMC Honorable Mention and Coach Tim Knudsen who was named Class AA Coach of the Year.